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Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Title Author Year
the sonnet-ballad Gwendolyn Brooks 1949
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London Dylan Thomas 1952
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be John Keats 1848
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Walt Whitman 1900
The Red Poppy Louise Glück 1992
Under the Harvest Moon Carl Sandburg 1916
Kissing in Vietnamese Ocean Vuong 2016
From “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” Edward Fitzgerald 1859
Paul Robeson Gwendolyn Brooks 1970
The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard] William Shakespeare 1622
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa Ada Limón 2024
The Pumpkin John Greenleaf Whittier 1850
The Owner of the Night Mark Doty 2017
Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong 2017
The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll 1872
Reading John Donne’s Holy Sonnets Aloud as a Teenager Michael Collier 2026
Story Carlie Hoffman 2026
In a Time of Peace Ilya Kaminsky 2019
It Was Like This: You Were Happy Jane Hirshfield 2006
The First Snowfall James Russell Lowell 1847

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